Genocide Fears in a Rural Black Community

Abstract

Since the urban unrest of the mid-1960s, controversy has developed among Blacks about the perception of birth control programs as a thinly disguised scheme to commit genocide against people of African origin in the United States and elsewhere (Weisbord, 1973). Some scholarly critiques and antibirth-control activities of Afro-Americans and other Third World people reflect a degree of concern with this issue. St. Clair Drake (Yette, 1971: 296) observed that many black militants are convinced that they would be 'ripped off' first during a period of servere repression, and that a policy of genocide would then be carried out against the entire Black